Fitzgerald Marine Sales v. LeUnes’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 1999
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Turner v. General Motors Corporation · Ford Motor Company v. Bland
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an unreasonably dangerous product is one that is dangerous to an extent beyond that which would be contemplated by the ordinary user of the product, with the ordinary knowledge common to the community of such users as to the product's characteristic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.